Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper pitched in with other volunteers Sunday, shoveling sidewalks forelderly and disabled residents who had called the city asking for help. Hickenlooper, recalling thathis first job as a kid was shoveling snow, said it was a bit like coming home. Though, its notnecessarily a home I wanted to come home to.

With heaps of snow and ice still clogging Denver neighborhood sidewalks and side streets, even Mayor John Hickenlooper lent a hand Sunday, shoveling walkways for the elderly and disabled. Hickenlooper went out with one of several volunteer teams helping to clear a backlog of 110 people who called 311 asking for assistance getting out of their homes.

And so, there was the mayor Sunday, dressed in a scarf, coat and bluejeans, shovel in hand, bending over, huffing and puffing and being reminded that iced-over sidewalks are a formidable equalizer.

“I left you all the hard stuff,” Charlotte Pitt, another volunteer, told Hickenlooper as they shoveled a sidewalk on Galapago Street in west Denver.

“That’s all right,” the mayor wheezed back.

“My first job as a kid was shoveling sidewalks and driveways,” Hickenlooper said. “So it’s a little like coming home. Though, it’s not necessarily a home I wanted to come home to.”

Hickenlooper said 80 snowplows continued to hit neighborhood streets in Denver on Sunday. But, with ice sticking to the streets as firmly as to the sidewalks, Hickenlooper said it will still be several days before snowfall-related headaches leave the city.

“It’s going to be very difficult to navigate the neighborhoods for a couple more days,” he said.

It was much the same across the metro area, as crews worked to clear side streets but found tough going. Many officials hoped warmer weather would help.

“The weather has been super, and we continue to have our crews on nonstop,” said Kim Stuart, an Aurora spokeswoman.

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